It says a lot about Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's stature in classical music that his death feels like the end of an era, even though he hadn't sung in public for two decades. For a few generations of ...

AS HE rubbed the horses down in the bitter cold and slush of the Eastern Front in 1943, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, then 18, sang songs into their ears. Brahms's “Four Serious Songs”, perhaps, or a Bach ...

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau had almost too much going for him. His voice was almost too beautiful, and once he lost his baby fat, he was almost too good-looking. And he was almost too versatile. He sang ...

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the German lyric baritone whose recordings and performances introduced several generations to the songs of Schumann, Schubert and Brahms and whose prolific career as both a ...

For millions of grateful listeners, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the German baritone, was the pre-eminent interpreter of art songs. Pavarotti and Domingo owned opera, but Fischer-Dieskau was unmatched in ...

German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has died — he was 86. Fischer-Dieskau began performing in the 1940s and had a career spanning five decades. He was perhaps best known for his interpretation of ...

Benjamin Appl presents a tribute to the great German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, with Brigitte Fassbaender, Christoph Eschenbach, Manuel Fischer-Dieskau and John Rutter. Show more For the 100th ...

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the German baritone known for repopularizing lieder, the musical settings of mostly German poems from the 18th and 19th centuries, died on Friday at his home in Bavaria. He ...

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau had almost too much going for him. His voice was almost too beautiful, and once he lost his baby fat, he was almost too good-looking. And he was almost too versatile. He sang ...